title: Improving patient-centered care through advance care planning.
abstract: Advance care planning is crucial for patients confronting incurable, debilitating, or terminal disease. Discussing end-of-life issues can reduce overtreatment and undertreatment as defined by the patient, and improve satisfaction with care.
authors.affiliation: Geisinger Medical System, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Molly
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Motley
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010358:Patient Participation; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards*; D058996:Quality Improvement